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Technical Specs
Stereo
8hours 17mins
Size 236.7MB
64kps
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Sorcerer’s Stone Book Description
Harry Potter has no idea how famous he is. That's because he's being raised by his miserable aunt and uncle who are terrified Harry will learn that he's really a wizard, just as his parents were. But everything changes when Harry is summoned to attend an infamous school for wizards, and he begins to discover some clues about his illustrious birthright. From the surprising way he is greeted by a lovable giant, to the unique curriculum and colorful faculty at his unusual school, Harry finds himself drawn deep inside a mystical world he never knew existed and closer to his own noble destiny.
Sorcerer’s Stone Narrator Performance Description
Jim Dale, with his fully voiced reading, brings the world of wizards to life in ways unimagined even by those who have read and re-read the book. The accents are sure, the inflections perfectly suit the characters, and some of Rowling's particularly inventive bits, like the game of Quidditch, become clearer. Sometimes poignant, often funny, Dale's interpretation of this enchanted other world is the consummate family-listening experience.
Awards And Nominations for Dale's Reading of Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
- 1999 Grammy Nomination
- 2000 Audiofile Earphone Award
- 2000 The Benjamin Franklin Award Best Children's Audio Book
Excerpt From Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/mm/audio/4s_9780807281956.mp3
Dale vs. Fry
What I've found is that this debate tends to be more about popularity and country pride rather than the actual performances.
I think that a lot of the people who haven't listened to Dale but proclaim Fry to be better then Dale do so because:
1. Stephen Fry is an AMAZING writer and a BRILLIANT comedic actor (the preference is based more on the general awesomeness of Fry)
2. Fry's version is the UK version (the preference is to support the version released in your country.)
I've seen a lot of comments in various forums regarding this question and people say things like Fry is a proper Brit or only an Englishman should read HP which is absurd because Dale is an Englishman too. In fact because of Dale’s BRILLIANT readings Dale was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the order of the British Empire) in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to British Children's Literature in America.
If you have the ability (bandwidth and HD space) download Dale and Fry but if you can only download one then download Dale
I have listened to Dale's reading of the series 7 times and Fry's twice. Stephen Fry was good; pleasant to listen to and easy on the ears. Fry is a great audio book reader.
Jim Dale approached the books as an actor first, and a reader second. Listening to Fry was like listening to a children's story. Listening to Dale is like listening to poetry that has been ignited.It’s literally a West End or Broadway one man show.
Dale's reading of the HP series has a constant sense of urgency to it. Even in the parts that aren't dramatic Dale finds a way to keep the story alive He makes the exposition exciting. Fry , not as much. This is the reason why Fry's readings of COS, POA, GOF, OOTP,HBP and DH are 45mins - 3hrs LONGER than Dale's readings.
Dale's ability to employ a multitude of accents and various speech affectations helped him to create distinct characters. Fry, especially in the first few books of the series, has a limited amount of voices/personas and he struggles to keep his voices separate.
Dale's vocal portrayals of JK's female characters are far more realistic than Fry's. Instead of trying to physically sound like a woman Dale, rather wisely, focuses on the cadence of female speech as well as all of the non-verbal speech things that we girls do. Stephen's use of his falsetto to portray girls, women and the Creavy brothers in the first few books of the series is very cartoonish and so Monty Python in nature that it is distracting.
Dale’s Dumbledore is just like Richard Harris’s Dumbledore; sophisticated, clever, observant, elegant, wise and too cool for school
Dale’s Snape is very similar to Alan Rickman’s Snape whereas Fry’s Snape sounds a bit like an evil Fraiser Crane.
Dale’s Voldermort supports JK’s text of him being snake like whereas Fry’s Snape is a bit high pitched.
Jim Dale's Three Guinness World Records for Harry Potter
- Most Character Voices in an Audio Book - 134 for HP and the OOTP
- Most Character Voices in an Audio Book - 146 for HP and the DH
- Jim Dale occupied the first SIX places of the 'Top Ten Best Selling
Audio C.D's of America and Canada',with his recordings of the Harry
Potter books.
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